User talk:Ɱ/Archive 3 - Knowledge (XXG)

705:, From last night, I noticed that about one hour after your fair warning to that editor to stop disruptive editing, that he/she resumed the pattern of further deleting citations and text from the article, and then tagging the article as uncited. This process seems to have been on a "slow-boil" incremental approach used by that editor over 6 weeks to having the article delisted. I imagine that the choice has come down to whether to allow that editor to continue with his/her clever "slow-boil" delisting of the article. You might try to reason further with that editor to stop inserting superfluous tags as you tried to do yesterday. Since I am supportive of your edits on that article, I would tend to support your version of the editing conduct at this time. 649:

with citation request templates. This was done before I could complete the investigation with admin:GFoley4 who felt it was more properly referred to as direct Vandalism. My report and diffs for this are on Talk:GFoley4 who has been on Wikibreak since last week. Prior to that, I reported the matter to admin:Eustress with a long list of diffs, and Eustress seemed to feel it looked like an ANI issue against the same disruptive editor (the prelim report is on Talk:Eustress under my name). I mention this in case you did not see these reports and because the tag bombing appears to be on the verge of delisting

3069:, the fourth in broadcast order and the one where Cleavon Little accidently hypnotizes Nancy Fox. Both give performances that I think should have won them Emmy nominations. I doubt that Nancy will ever see all this but even if she did there's nothing to worry about. Like I said, I've corresponded with her over the last three years and she seems to be a very charming lady. (Said correspondence has been largely by email exchanges but we had a lengthy phone conversation last January.) I've told her that I think she's very pretty and adorable and that I had a big crush on her back when 4039:. Unfortunately a consensus was not reached and the article was not promoted. Although it had your support along with three others there were two reviewers who opposed the article. I addressed all the concerns of one of them (Nikkirama) but he (or she) never acknowledged this. The other opposition came from Graham Beards, who complained about the article not having a production section. Alas I cannot add this section at present time as I have no valid sources of information about the modus operandi of the series. 1571: 2562: 2743: 257:, don't you think the first heading under "History" should be "Prehistory"? Prehistory describes events that happened before history was recorded there. And usually for historical articles and sections, we like to have sections named for a specific era or period (1800s, Progressive Era, 20th century...), while "Native Americans" is vague. That's especially true for foreigners who may not be informed that natives all moved out or were pushed out long ago.-- 3894:, I can tell you that both are very beautiful places, but you don't see Westchester's (or any other county article) full of useless nature shots. These articles should only use photographs that are relevant to the specific topic being discussed. As well, there are hundreds of wineries in Napa County; therefore it is very bad to showcase some and not others. For that reason, individual wineries should not be pictured or mentioned so specifically.-- 31: 3427: 3263: 1645: 1128: 841: 3782:

him in such a large company. You may think otherwise, and you've done a lot more research on the topic than I have; it just appears too heavily focused on him from my initial views. Feel free to ask others of course, but if nobody steps up, I will. And thanks so much for the food photography compliments, I started out as a real amateur only a few years ago, and now that's one of my biggest passions. My

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the text. Beards was at times rather vague about what he thought was wrong with the article. Maybe I'm over-reacting but I found much of his criticism to be done in a seemingly smug and condescending manner. At current time I will leave the article as it is but in the near future I will post it as a good article candidate. Again thanks for your FAC support.

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old picture is a good picture because it illustrates the river when it goes through Yonkers. My question is this: Is the most significant fact about the river that the river is altered in Yonkers, or is it more important to show the river in its natural state? That determines whether I would want the new picture in the infobox or the old one.

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and easily find it. The new photo could very well have been taken at any creek in the whole Northeast. We should plan to include it somewhere else in the article; it also helps to show people how wide the river actually gets (from the current photos, it very well looks like nothing more than a tiny stream).--

3027:, was a "dream-girl" for me way back then. Although I've never met her I have corresponded with her over the past three years. She seems to be just as charming in real life as she was on television. I've also seen some recent pictures of her. She's aged quite well and is still a very attractive lady. 236:, so it was kind of hard to drive up the river looking for good photographs, and besides it's a developed watershed all the way back to the city it gets its name from in any event, to the point that it's allegedly the most polluted waterway in that country. So that is, in its way, a representative image. 3920:

Fair enough. I believe my recent edits satisfy your objections. There is a picture of Mount Saint Helena where the mountain is mentioned, a picture of the hills where geography is talked about, and a picture of the barrels where wine is talked about. Please note that there are indeed pictures of some

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I did look over the changes, and there's so many that I'd have to spend quite a bit of time dissecting what was added and what was removed. Overall I feel that the text leans very strongly on this one man Jay Bhatt, who may be the chief executive now, but I don't think so much should be attributed to

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Hello. Sure, I would be glad to talk with you. My phone is 914.923.3656 and yes...I am a Scarborough resident and a "member" of Save Scarborough. I have a message machine. I have a lot of data gathered from the National Archives on the station. (there used to be a southbound station also of which

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Well, a shot of the cemetery's bridge and its mouth and source(s) are just a few others worth taking that aren't available free. Daniel Case said he'll want to do some of that this spring when the foliage is better, unless there's still some good autumn foliage there now. I'm in California, and won't

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page seems to be part of his/her extended vandalism to the Knowledge (XXG) page over the last 6 weeks. The same user apparently had the objective of spurring someone else to initiate the delisting of Knowledge (XXG) from GA status by a pattern of removing cites from the Page and then marking the Page

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I see what the issue is here. The way I have usually handled this is to make "prehistory" a subsection of the history section, sometimes with an end date. This basically limits the meaning of "prehistory" to "times in the past when exact years under the Western calendar are not known and are unlikely

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Well, regardless of technicalities, pre-Columbian also gives the same meaning. I'm now recalling, that was the terminology I initially used in my Briarcliff draft, and a GOCE member and admin preferred 'prehistory'. Still, the term 'Native American' shouldn't be used, especially because some areas of

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I prefer the title Native Americans because Native American history is not pre-history. Perhaps the title could be Ntive American history, but it should not be pre-history. With respect to the new photo, I uploaded that one to be used in the river course about when the river goes through Ardsley. The

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is not available on DVD so there are no audio commentaries or "behind-the-scenes" extras, nor are there any books or websites devoted to it. Graham Beards also kept harping about the prose being "unprofessional" and "not engaging" even though I had a copy-editor plus two published authors look over

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I did mean closer to its mouth. Your above reasoning is solid, just, as a photographer, I like the composition and crispness of the old one, as well as that it's in context. People who recognize the Yonkers train station will know where the photo was taken, and people who don't can do some searching

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article that my colleague, Chris, had proposed and I was wondering if you'd have a bit of time to look at some further updates needed to the article? Like Chris, I have a financial COI with the Blackboard article, so I won't be making any edits to the page. If you're able to look, I've outlined the

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a little while ago, and ran into this sentence in the article: "The other sub-plot consists of completing missions set out by a Triad lieutenant such as killing Triad members loyal to the competing lieutenants." Unfortunately, the sentence isn't good enough for FA, so I was wondering if you could

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I'm not talking about actual verifiability, I just prefer, especially for Knowledge (XXG) images, for there to be indicators of where the photograph is taken. I don't know how better to explain it, because that sounds a bit weak, but I suppose it helps to have recognizable places and objects in a

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originally aired. I've also assured her that having a crush on her is just a memory now (albeit a very pleasant one) and that what I now feel is admiration for a very lovely and talented actress. Whenever I write to her I always extend my best wishes to her as well as her husband and their two

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article and coming to my "defense" against the opposition by Nikkimaria and Graham Beards. I'm quite annoyed by them because their criticism (in my opinion) is done in such a condescending manner and only makes vague references to what needs to be corrected (i.e. "it needs copy-editing"). Your

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Here's a good example: Briarcliff Manor is a a small municipality, but that didn't stop its 151kb article from becoming Featured. Also, people judge article size by 'readable prose size', meaning the Briarcliff article is really 57kb and the Saw Mill River article is only 38kb. So I'd say you're

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Thanks! Yeah, if you check out my userpage, that's where I'm tracking the statuses of the articles; I will eventually want every worthwhile one to be FA-class. That's been my stretch goal since day one; my primary interest has always been focused on the general Briarcliff Manor article. If that

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Hi there, just wanted to check in and see if you're still planning on taking a look at the changes I've suggested for Blackboard Inc. There's no rush, just wanted to know if you'd prefer I reached out to some other folks. As a side note, the food photographs on your user page have made me very

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It's tough to search for real people, as many people will not use their name and instead go by an alias (like me). I'd really suggest asking them. Instead, you could search for their full name on the search bar at the very top right of this page. That search may just search Knowledge (XXG)'s

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I'm thinking of getting down there at some point and taking one from the middle of a bridge if it's a nice day like this one. Maybe even tomorrow. As to your reasoning, I understand—but that could be said about so many of our other river articles, including some on small Northeastern rivers

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I also like for those images to be sort of wild-looking (as you may have noticed), since after all rivers are natural features. This would be especially pertinent with the Saw Mill, since it has such a rustic-sounding name, and showing it flowing through a parking lot under a

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I am okay with using the new picture then. I also feel that pre-history has the connotation of indigenous people crossing the Bering Straight land bridge, not of the natives explorers encountered when they found America. I am okay with using the term Native American History.

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and leave open only the support comment. This should tidy up the talk page and make it more presentable to advance the article into FA status. You are one of two people who have given it support so I think there is a good chance that I'll get there. Thanks again.

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I'll see what I can do ... maybe even expand the course description some more. I'm sort of "rivered out" for now, and there are some more things I'd like to add to and expand on the Saw Mill article. But that article could definitely use some more love.

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until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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I noticed that the low importance articles on small rivers that are featured have about 30kb-40kb in the article. The Saw Mill River article has 87kb. Does the Saw Mill River article need to be chopped in half? Thank you for reading this.

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You're welcome. It's a shame it turned out the way it did, but what can you do. As for further steps, I recommend nominating it for Good Article right away. The backlog is long enough that it'll still be a while before the review

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Thank you, and that's perfectly alright. And my writing wasn't that great, I owe it to everyone who reviewed it for improving the conciseness and flow of the text, among all of the other very usdeful changes. Thanks

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articles; once you search, you may have to switch by clicking "Everything" to search the whole site. Also, I'm not sure how someone made the tunnels; they're just free graphics that I embedded onto my talk page.--

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

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It's been a week since the review was put on hold to resolve the close paraphrasing. I've made an update while on hold to resolve the major close paraphrasing issue. Are you wanting to continue the GA review?

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specific wineries, but they were added before me, and they are in the relevant section on wineries. Some sample wineries pictures there are probably appropriate. Let me know if we still disagree on anything.

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one!) I've helped her document her career (modest though it was) and she has expressed her gratitude to me. Also, as I said before, she's aged quite well and is still a very attractive lady. Here's a

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I've been awfully busy; I actually moved a week ago and I'm busy with work among other things, still trying to keep up with all that, and then also the Knowledge (XXG) work on top of that. Will let you

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After taking a week off, the tag bombing and deletion of material has restarted by that same user earlier today. I have initiated an ANI on it this morning, perhaps you could glance at it.

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Understandable, and yeah, it could use quite a number of photos. Is the fall foliage already too far gone for good photographs? When I was there two weeks ago it was still pretty strong.--

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comments are much more supportive and constructive and for that I am extremely grateful. I may not get the article to FA status but I've done my best. Thanks again for the help.

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Sure, but I'd still like to remain a nominator so I can respond to the reviewer's questions, if needed. I presume Daniel Case might also be helpful and willing in the GA review.--

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in a more helpful manner. So, with the light of a new day and some helpful guidance, there's a new approach and my assistance in rewording one of the close paraphrasing examples.

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OK, cool. I saw the first episode and have been planning to see more, when I get time I definitely will. Also, I hope Nancy Fox doesn't somehow find out how to read all this...--

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Where do you get that idea from? I don't think that it would be different for one template or another. The guideline applies to US cities regardless of specific templates used.--

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Absolutely no offense meant, but just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's necessarily the right way. I'd rather stick with Wikiproject Cities' US Guideline (

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In the past, I have preferred (and tried) to photograph watercourses at some point roughly midway along their length for the lead image, where I've been the one taking it—see

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article by adding some new information. Take a look if you have a chance. BTW, one of the main reasons that I like this series so much is because one of its star, the

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I'm glad it has a lovely lead image ... I will probably want to wait till next spring when it's nice and green again to take more pictures, which it could probably use.

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lol I don't wanna look like a douche bag, but in reality, I need help with the entire characters section (sorry to bother you). I'm trying to get the section to be like

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No, that's fine, really. I'll attempt to get to it today or tomorrow; I'm in the middle of a GAN, FAC, and a lot of real-life things, so I'll let you know when I can.--

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Hi Ɱ, sorry for the delay in reply, I've been thinking about how to help show the changes that I'm proposing. What I've done is to put the current live version of the

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How is Native American history not prehistory? Also, I've agreed with Daniel that the new photo is better in the infobox, I just think the old one's worth including.--

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find any way to re-phrase this, as I'm not that good at writing on the site yet. Thanks for everything in advance! Ps.: the sentence is located a the Synopsis -: -->

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There are alot of photos on flickr of Pocantico Lake. They are all copyrighted, but perhaps we can request an author to allow us to use one image in the article.

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a Featured List, and will definitely need more people to comment on the review. Would you please consider writing something on the review page? Thank you.--

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with a few more suggestions for the article. I hope you'll have some time to take a look. I appreciate your feedback and help with these requests. Thanks,

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